Late as fuck but it's been 4 years since HL2EP2 was released. And the screen slowly fades to black after a lot of confusing shit happens at the end of the game (no light, mind is mess)
Freeman gets locked up (stasis) often-ish, and the screms thing could be related to fast zombies or something.

It's a genius marketing technique. You have to buy the games if you want to be part of solving the ARG, and they were all put into a convenient pack so you can buy them together at a discount price. And then they promise a hat just for safe measure.

the guy who made the ball is a writer for the dutch OPM (official playstation magazine) and some time ago he complained in his column about how his game sold badly and that people would rather buy a virtual hat in tf2.

21:28 - Reddy: love how valve are trying to show off with that
21:28 - Reddy: Individual Price - £54.37
21:29 - Reddy: package price - £108.87
21:29 - Reddy: only so they can say they've got a massive percentage off when they reduce it to £27.22
21:29 - Reddy: cheap faggots.
21:30 - Reddy: just so they can say
21:30 - Reddy: 75% off
21:30 - Reddy: rather than it being just under 50% off
21:30 - Reddy: >.>